The university has two campuses with advanced and complete facilities, namely Heping Campus and New Campus. The latter was put into service in 2004. The two campuses cover a land area of more than 2500 mu, with a building area of over 700,000 m2. The library has a collection of 2,985,000 books, including over 1,865,000 printed books (20,000 in foreign languages) and 1,120,000 e-books (more than 20,000 in foreign languages). The university owns an area of 84,200 m2 for sports and instruments and equipment of RMB 205 million worth for teaching and research. It owns 5531 computers and 18500 seats in multimedia classrooms and language labs. Its superior location, natural and aesthetical layout, magnificent buildings, beautiful environment and eco-friendly, garden-style and digitalized campuses make the university an ideal choice for students and teachers.
In active efforts to meet the needs of regional economic and social development, the university duly optimizes the mix of disciplines to schools and divisions including School of Civil Engineering, School of Management Engineering, School of Thermal Engineering, School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, School of Arts, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, School of Information and Electrical Engineering, School of Business, School of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Computer Science and Technology, Science School, School of Law and Political Science, School of Foreign Languages, School of Transportation Engineering, Continuing Education School, and Physical Education Division. The university offers 51 majors for undergraduates, 14 first-level master's degree programs, 52 second-level master's degree programs, six academic master's degree programs and 11 professional master's degree programs. It has a current enrollment of 24,000 full-time students from 30 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions. The university considers teaching quality as the lifeblood for it to survive and develop. In implementing a quality-oriented strategy, the university focuses on fostering creativity, ability of practice and employment competiveness of students by renovating educational philosophy, deepening teaching reform, standardizing teaching management and establishing the core role of teaching.
The university concentrates great efforts on cultivating graduates with excellent academic performance, strong adaptability, high capability and superior competency. Through great efforts in improving teaching, launch of a variety of teaching quality programs and application for national and provincial teaching programs, the university has attained remarkable achievements, including four national specialty disciplines, two national project practice education centers, one national experimental teaching demonstration center, three national top-quality courses, one national bilingual demonstration course, one national outstanding teacher with six civil engineering sub-disciplines passed the national professional appraisal. The university attaches great importance to the development of the creativity and comprehensive quality of students. To this end, it has established an engineering-based teaching system integrating learning, practice and research. The university has also been active in building teaching practice base and encouraging research-based learning and innovative test program.
In 2011, it was approved by the Ministry of Education to implement the Excellent Engineer Training Program (also known as the Excellence Program). In recent years, students have won more than 900 awards in various contests at and above provincial level, including the "Challenge Cup" and contests of electronic design, mathematical modeling, planning and design, art design. The university is listed among top universities in China for the number of declared and licensed patents, and rated as national excellent organizer of social practice of university students for 22 times. Its graduates are widely recognized with an employment rate of over 90% in the past five consecutive years, ranking top among the universities in Shandong Province. It was awarded the honor of National Outstanding Organizations for Cultivating Talents for Construction, Outstanding Organizations for Employment in Shandong Province and Model Universities for Employment-Oriented Innovative Education in Shandong Province. Since its founding, the university has provided more than 100,000 high-quality graduates to the society, most of whom have become the backbone in various industries and sectors in China, winning high reputation from the society for their high comprehensive quality, strong desire to do better, hardworking and innovative spirits, and excellent performance. Among the 36 engineering survey and design maters elected in Shandong Province, ten are graduates from the university.
